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Michel Orrit wins Physica Prize 2016 02 February 2016Michel Orrit was awarded the Physica prize 2016 for his groundbreaking work on single molecule spectroscopy.
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Breakthrough in uncrackable quantum encryption 01 February 2016An important discovery makes it possible to communicate complex information among multiple people without the message being cracked. The communicatio...
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Cancer cell mechanism found to be used against itself 18 January 2016Leiden biophysicists have found a new possible way to attack cancer cells. They have located ‘sinkholes’ on the cells where receptor proteins disappea...
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Counting Molecules in Living cells 13 January 2016Biophysicist Rolf Harkes has developed a microscope to optically localize individual molecules in living cells. It improves monitoring of diseases lik...
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FOM Grant for Theoretical Model Majorana Gun 12 January 2016
Professor Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a FOM Projectruimte subsidy to build a theoretical model of a majorana gun, a very promising instrument for...
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Discoverer of the Year, Best Dissertation and Education prize 2015 05 January 2016During the Faculty of Science New Year's reception, Daniël Rozen was named Discoverer of the year 2015. Nienke van der Marel and Koen van der Maaden b...
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New way of driving nanomotors 21 December 2015Leiden Physicists have found evidence for the Berry-force that could be used for driving tiny nanomotors, just like a river drives a water wheel. Nano...
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Parkinson Protein α-Synuclein Binds Surprisingly Strong with Membrane 16 December 2015Α-synuclein, a protein associated with Parkinson’s disease, proves to bind with membranes in a surprisingly efficient way. It confirms scientists’ sus...
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New method of detecting rapid virus development 15 December 2015Physicists, including Leiden researcher, Sanli Faes, have devised a new technique for studying processes at microscale rapidly and extremely precisely...
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Fishing for neutrinos in the Mediterranean Sea 11 December 2015Physicists, including Dorothea Samtleben from Leiden University, are building a giant underwater telescope to unravel the origin of neutrinos and to s...
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Understanding Single Photon Detectors 19 October 2015Leiden physicists have developed a way to address how accurately a superconducting single photon detector (SSPD) can be characterized by detector tomo...
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A new step in the search for the origin of dark matter 13 October 2015A signal that is present both in the centre of our Milky Way and in distant places in the universe could reveal the origin of dark matter. This is wha...
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New technique for Imaging Charge Transport in a Graphene Layered Cake 16 September 2015Leiden Physicists have developed a new technique to visualize electrical conductance in sheet-like nano materials. It shows great promise for devices ...
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Former LION PhD Student Wins GNN Dissertation Prize 11 August 2015
The 2015 Dissertation Prize of the Global Neutrino Network has been awarded to Tri Astraatmadja, who was part of the Leiden/Nikhef ANTARES group durin...
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eScience Grant for LION Neutrino Research 30 July 2015The Netherlands eScience Center has announced to fund a new Path-Finding Project led by Dr. Dorothea Samtleben from the Leiden Institute of Physics (L...